I saw some bits of a show done by a magician called David Blaine yesterday. If you do a search on his name you come up with loads of stuff about his feats. It turns out that he don't just perform magic tricks, his feats includes extreme tests of the human endurance. His endurance that is.



The bits i watched was on two feats which he called 'Frozen in Time' and 'Vertigo'. Abit on 'Vertigo'. In this feat, he stood on a 10 storey pole in new york for 35 hours with no safety belts or safety nets. At the end of 35 hours, his team brought in loads of empty boxes for him to drop and fall into. End of one simple but extremely diffcult feat.



In an interview with one of the passerbys in new york, the passerby said something like this "...new york is a busy city of commuters. People moving from point A to point B, point B to point A... it's difficult for people to stand still for even five minutes, and this guy is standing still for 35 hours in the middle of new york city... what he is doing is something great for this city"



Hmm... standing still. Perhaps the next time we encounter a problem, we should stand still and try to make some sense of what is happening. Do something for ourselves, if not great, atleast enriching.